Lynnfield Field Project

Summary of needs, options, recommendations

Methodology
Contracted with Gale Associates engineering firm Determined inventory of existing fields and recreational facilities Contacted all Lynnfield recreation groups to quantify: number of participants, number of events at fields, which fields are used, additional needs not currently being met Conducted sensing sessions; the schedule of these was published in the newspaper and through emails. Gales reports can be found on the town website under Board of Selectmen at: http://town.lynnfield.ma.us/Pages/LynnfieldMA_BOS/Ga le%20Report%20on%20Fields/

Field use acceptable number of events

Event defined as use by group of 10 20 individuals for a period of roughly two hours.

Current field conditions

Current field conditions

Field use and needs

Current field use was quantified from responses of recreational groups Recreation groups have over 3,300 athletes and 5,681 annual events Gale calculates that a well maintained field can sustain 250 uses per year To support current use 23 fields are needed. Lynnfield currently has only 17 Therefore, fields are overused to the point where adequate maintenance is impossible

Field Need (continued) - existing fields inventory, events, and athletes

Current number of fields supports 4,250 events Deficit of 1,431 events or six fields High School project will in effect add four plus fields

Field need by type

Options
Main Street property
Over 90 acres but only 15 useable for fields Over $6M for three fields only one that is synthetic with lights

Options (continued)
High School Option 1 Currently two multi use fields, one baseball, one softball, youth size field (upper), practice field over two outfields all grass Proposed:
Multi use synthetic turf stadium with lights, bleachers, concessions, bathrooms, visitor locker room Two multi use synthetic turf fields with lights Redeveloped baseball and softball at upper field Because of turf and lights equates to an increase of four multi use fields

High School Option 1

Options
Middle School Option 1
Redevelop complex with new, regulation track Multi use, regulation size turf field

Middle School Option 1

Need
Over the last decade plus, Lynnfield voters have supported:
Schools Senior Center Police Fire DPW But has not done anything to address the need for more and better maintained fields

Memorandum of Understaning
HS and MS generally used by school athletics weekdays 7:30 AM to 6PM with some exceptions:
Stadium field for HS Friday nights and Saturdays in Fall At least one field available at 3PM weekdays in Spring and Fall
HS field #3 available to non school groups as of 5PM in Fall and 3PM in Spring MS turf field available 3PM in Fall MS baseball and outfield field available 3PM in Fall HS and MS softball fields available 3PM in Fall

Non school times will be distributed to youth and other recreation groups by Recreation Committee

High School Project Funding

Entire project will be done without affecting your tax rate Project will be financed from existing cash and revenues

Cost and funding

High School Fields Project Financing
High School Project Cost* Town Wide Field Improvements Total Cost Funding Sources Life Land Sale Sale of Real Estate Account Total Reserves to be Applied Amount to be Financed Annual Debt Servive $ 1,000,000.00 $ 1,500,000.00 $ 2,500,000.00 $ 3,948,000.00 $ 350,000.00 $ 5,663,000.00 $ 785,000.00 $ 6,448,000.00

Debt Service Funding Sources** Golf Enterprise Annual Surplus New Tax Revenue Market Street $ $ 150,000.00 200,000.00

*Assumes 1 turf performance stadium with lights, 2 additional turf fields and reconfigured basebal and softball playing areas (non-turf, no lights) ** Assumes No Debt Exclusion Override of Prop 2 1/2 thus No increase in Property Taxes

Middle School project

$1.5M to $2.0M All privately funded through donations and grants

Timeline
October town meeting
Request $250K funding for engineering study
HS and MS fields, improvements for other fields, maintenance plan, more accurate cost estimates, bid documents

April town meeting

Approval of development and funding plan

May 2014 solicit bids June 2014 select contractor July 2014 begin construction Fall 2014 Completion of project

Property values will increase

Property values will increase as a result of the new, beautiful playing fields Most surrounding towns have done one or several turf complexes:
Reading, North Reading, North Andover, Manchester-Essex, Melrose, Malden

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT

Current Middle School Field

Middle School Bleachers

North Reading Bleachers

Current High School Field

Rendering similar field Hingham